# Replication archive
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Top-down or bottom-up? The selection of shadow rapporteurs in the European Parliament 
Frank M. Häge and Nils Ringe

This replication archive reproduces the analyses presented in the article using R scripts.

The file "shdw-management05-clean.RData" contains the data.

The R script "shdw-analysis01a-final-cccAll.R" produces the tables and figures in the main text.

The other "shdw-analysis01" scripts produce various robustness analyses presented 
in Appendix 2 of the online supplementary information.

The R script "shdw-analysis02-bivariateRelations.R" produces the plots of bivariate relationships 
between explanatory variables and shadow rapporteur appointment presented in 
Appendix 1 of the online supplmentary information.